Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
It was basically all manner of filth that people lived in back then. Both the rats and the fleas were a part of it, but it IS significant that large numbers of villagers stopped dying when merchant ships that traveled from coastal town to coastal town doing business started carrying cats that then killed the rats and halted the spread of the plague.
Ping!
Even with time travel they can't stop the plague.
IIRC the London cemetery find was added to the storyline for the book.
I was always taught that it wasn’t the rats, but the fleas and the mites that spread the plague. Now I’m reading that what I was taught was true.
How can that be?